His life passes through successive stages of punishment, compromise, and self-disintegration, due to numerous inner demons.He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.He leaned against the bar at the Old Home Sample Room, the most gilded and urbane saloon in Cato, Missouri, and requested the bartender to join him in ""The Good Old Summer Time,"" the waltz of the day.They were also found to be shipping 62 containers of oil field equipment there.After phoning Jan at her insurance company, Foley also learned that Dent had been the Cultural Attache to the East German Embassy in Honduras.Frog-voiced McGann is dismayed by his young charge: "Call Paine, call Saunders, call the Marines, call somebody."One of the prisoners can""t endure the lustful suffering she is creating: "Oh man, oh man, I""m dyin"".